Articles tagged: satire
column: Scooby-Doo, I Facebook you
Posted: Feb 23, 2013Facebook is fantastic. It gives us an unprecedented opportunity to appear in public in our underwear. Unfortunately, for most of us this turns out to be brightly colored Scooby-Doo boxer shorts. I mean that metaphorically, ... Read more »
column: Fighting the Resolutionary War
Posted: Jan 01, 2013It’s New Years! Time to write up your List! We all know pretty much how this resolution thing works. You approach the coming year with good intentions, so you write down a bunch of stuff ... Read more »
column: Now and Then: The best part of being here is where I've been
Posted: Nov 21, 2012When I was a kid I had a sort-of girlfriend called Catnip Catie. Her name came from the fact that she always kept her personal supply of Whacky Wonder Weed hidden in her cat’s toys. ... Read more »
column: Siri & Me
Posted: Nov 01, 2012I finally got an iPhone. Mind you, I didn't get the trendy new iPhone 5 — the only model I could afford without hitting the lottery was a creaky old iPhone 4s. This means I will ... Read more »
column: Down to the sea on pontoons - part III
Posted: Sep 26, 2012In Which the Perfect Boat Doesn't Actually Sink When we last left our heroes, Harold and Mike, they were about to launch their newly restored pontoon boat, which we’ve come to know as "Harold & ... Read more »
column: Down to the sea on pontoons - Part II
Posted: Aug 23, 2012In Which I Chip Crud Off the Perfect Boat In our last installment, my neighbor Harold and I decided to buy a pontoon boat together. If you've never seen a pontoon boat, what we're talking ... Read more »
column: Down to the sea on pontoons
Posted: Jul 05, 2012Part I - In Which We Find the Perfect Boat There are some people who say that Pontoon Boats are just for deaf old men in sans-a-belt slacks. To that I say, “What? Speak up!” ... Read more »
column: Banjo Picker Blues - instrument is not the world's most beloved
Posted: May 21, 2012My name is Mike, and I'm a banjo picker. In my last column, I suggested that I intend to exact a particularly fiendish sort of retribution on my son by teaching my beautiful new granddaughter ... Read more »
column: Caelyn - Birth of a granddaughter is perfect time to exact retribution on my son
Posted: Apr 26, 2012My new granddaughter was born last night. Now, a lot of things can happen to you that are really great; finding a $20 bill in the pocket of a jacket you haven't worn in a ... Read more »
column: A few words to all you movers and shakers
Posted: Jan 12, 2012As we stumble headlong into 2012, which as we all know will be the year during which the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl is going to turn all of us humans into little puddles of smoldering slag, ... Read more »
column: A perfect Christmas Day
Posted: Dec 25, 20116:15 a.m. - The bedroom door swings open and Todd Junior launches himself onto the bed screaming, “Mom! Dad! Wake Up! IT’S CHRISTMAS!” Dad, who was assembling and wrapping toys until twenty minutes ago, can’t open ... Read more »
column: It's Christmas Eve! Is this your chafing dish?
Posted: Dec 24, 2011Dodge pulls into the driveway at Grandma’s House. Mom, Dad, Todd Junior and little Susie are all quivering with anticipation and full bladders as they limp up the driveway, trying to stamp a little blood ... Read more »
column: Confessions of a Christmas music junkie
Posted: Dec 23, 2011Silent night. Holy night. Only it's not really all that silent, is it? Aren't we actually making all sorts of racket about this alleged "Silent Night" instead of enjoying the silence of it? Could this ... Read more »
column: Help for the shopmentally challenged
Posted: Dec 22, 2011The holidays are here again, and throughout the land families are getting ready for the fun. The average mom is working day and night, addressing the cards, planning the merry-making, and doing everything in her ... Read more »
column: A brief history of Christmas
Posted: Dec 20, 2011O Holy night, The stars are brightly shining. It is the night of our dear Savior's birth. A soft coating of pure white snow blankets the countryside. Stars twinkle in the cold winter sky. The ... Read more »
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